My Butt Didn't Fit in the Crock Pot

My sister made my son cook dinner once a week when he was there over the summer. Luckily, he likes to cook and has 4 really yummy meals in his culinary repertoire. One of his favorites is pulled pork. They were going to have a BBQ sauce cook off to see who could make the better sauce but they ran out of time. His last week there was spent in the sleep lab, one of those days being his birthday. One of the gifts my sister took there for him to open was a bag of 4 different BBQ sauces. Not your typical birthday present but still got a positive reaction. My question is, how much pulled pork does she think we eat?! 4 bottles of BBQ sauce is a lot considering we only have two carnivores in our house. Seriously, 4 bottles!?!?!?!?!?!?!

As we were grocery shopping last week we decided to get a pork butt to make pulled pork and have a BBQ sauce taste test with our 4 bottles. We chose to get a really big butt so we would have lots of leftovers to eat throughout the week. I always put it in the crock pot and let it slow cook all day so its ready for us to eat when I got home from work. I went to put the butt into the crock pot and it didn't fit!!!! We got such a big pork butt that I had to squish the sides and shove it down into the crock pot. I finally wriggled it in there (luckily I had put a little bit of liquid in the bottom beforehand) and it was so big the top didn't close! It was almost there but was sitting on the meat. I turned it on to cook for 10 hours and went to work. My thought was that as it cooked and shrank a little, the lid would fully close. I was excited to have pulled pork for dinner and had been looking forward to it all day at work so I went straight to the crock pot when I got home; only to find that it wasn't done cooking! The gigantic pork butt didn't even cook in 10 hours!!!!!!!!!!! The meat hadn't even shrunk enough to allow the lid to close all the way. I had to shove it down into the pot some more and drain a little of the liquid and voila, the lid fit! :) Woo Hoo! Now to finish cooking the ginormous butt. I turned it on high and cooked it another 6 hours. Mmmmm...mmmmmm...Sheer perfection - for dinner the next night....

And the winning BBQ sauce is Sweet Baby Rays Hickory and Brown Sugar.